Folding camera.



P. W.' TIERNEY.

FDLDING CAMERA.

APPLICATmN F|LEn 1uNE2|,.1.91a.

Patented Sept.' 24, 1918.

vSATTORNEYS UNHED, STATES OFFICE.

f PHILIP W. 'TIERNEIL oF RoCHEs'IEIr.,A NEWYCRK, AssIGNoR To EAsTMAN KODAK COMPANY, or ROCHESTER, NEWYCRK, n CORPORATION oF-NEW YORK.

- FOLDING CAMERA;

Application ined .Tune 21, 191s. serial No. 241,140.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I,.PHILIP W. TIERNEY,

'i of Rochester, in the county of Monroeand State of New `York,y have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Foldmg Cameras; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip- A tion of the. same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the reference-numerals marked thereon.

My present invention relates raphy andV more particularly to photographic hand cameras of the folding type in which the field ofexposure is oblong, re-

cluiiing the camera tol be heldin one posi-4 tion yfor subjects of Vgreater height than breadth and in another position for subjects.

greater iny breadth than in height. VA leg is provided on the hinged bed of suchfcameras so that when extended and in onen-position,

the camera is supported partly on this leg and partly on thebody; `My present invention has for its object to improve the construction of a. folding leg of this kind and to utilize the two positions of the leg for supporting the camera on a tripod or similar base in either of the positions above mentioned as required for different subjects. To these and other ends the invention resides in certain improvements and combinations of parts all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a folding camera constructed in accordance with and illustrating one embodiment of my invention, the same being extended and supported in one of its operative positions;

Fig. 2 is a front view thereof in folded position;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary View of a portion of the camera bed;

Fig. 4 is a section on the lines 4 4 of Fig. 1 and Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several views indicate the same parts.

Referring more particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, 1 indicates the shallow camera body; 2 the hinged front coverv that closes the bellows chamber as shown in Fig. 2 when the camera is folded and that also serves as al bed, as shown 1n Fig. 1, whenthe camera lisl extended; 3 indicates the collapsible bellows and 4 is the frontk that carries the'lens and slides upon the bed'2 to be folded Withinthe body. When the camera is upright,- as

in Fig. 1, to take a tall object,the bed 2 is parallel with butspaced from the support-k ing surface A upon which the bodyV rests and it Is-somaintained bya kfolding le 5 fvhich is constructed and mountedias olows:

. The usual side flange 6 of the-bed and Yitsleather covering 7 are cut awayv or reduced at one edge to vprovide a shallow rounded flange 8 shown in Fig. 4. Cooperating therewith to ride thereon and provide a'pivotfor the leg 5 isa curled `flange 9 on the latter. The said two coperating flanges are held-in engage ment with each other by a llat leaf spring-10 riveted at 11 to a mounting plate 12 which latter is `also held to the bed 2 by the said rivetsll. `,The leg -may'thus be held in the operative position of Figs. 1, 4 and 5 with the spring 10 bearing upon a llat surface v13) oftheilange 9 or in the folded position of Fig. 2 w1th the spring bearing upon a relatively angularly disposed flat surface 14 of the flange 9 in which last mentioned position the leg lies within a profile recess 15 in the leather covering 7 of the bed and against the under surface ofthe bed plate 2.

The mounting plate 12 is provided with two flanged abutments 16 that furnish an# other set of flanges on the bed 2, and when the leg is in its operative position, flanges 17 thereon formed by shoulders cut into the double flange 9 engage these flanges 16 as stops to limit the unfolding movement of the leg as clearly shown in Fig. 5.

In the further practice of my invention,

secure the threaded socket 18 for the reception of the screw plug on a tripod or other camera support in the body of the leg 5, the spring 10, plate 12, bed 2 and leather cover 7 being all recessed as indicated generally at 19 in Fig. 4, for the reception'of the projecting portion of this plug when the leg is folded against the bed. It will be seen at once that this furnishes a means of fixing the camera on a tripod either in the erect the leg extended as in Fig. 1, the socket will open laterally and be adapted to receive the vertically disposed attachmentscrew on the tripod when the camera is turned on its side to photograph a subject greater in Width` bed are sim ale stam inOs and ma be easil assembled, the spring 10 being the key part which holds the parts assembled.

The function of `the engagement of the flanges 16 and 17 on the respective parts is more than to simply limit the outward pivoting of the leg in the use thereof indicated in Fig. 1, for it will be understood that When the camera is supported on its side on the tripod, the full Weight thereof is borne byv this stop device which, with the construction shown, may bereadily made strong enough to assume it.

I cla-im as my invention:

l. In a folding camera, the combination with a body adapted to rest upon a supporting surface and a hinged bed in the body having an extended position parallel to but spaced from such surface, of a folding leg on the bed adapted to contact the supportspaced from such surface, of a folding leg on the bed adapted to contact the supporting surface, the leg and the bed bein y pro-` vided, respectively, With interlocking anges forming a pivot, and a leaf spring on one of said elements engaging the flange of the other to hold the flanges in engagement with each other and to maintain the leg in either its folded'or its extended position.

3. In a folding camera, the combination with a body adapted to rest upon a supporting 'surface and a hinged bed in the body having an extended position parallel to but spaced from such surface, of a folding legl on the bedadapted to contact' the supporting surface, the leg and the bed being provdded, respectively, with two sets of coperating flanges, one set forming a pivotal connection for the part-S and the `other abutting stops for limiting the unfolding movement of the leg.

PHILIP W; TIERNEY.

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